APMPriceBook

Observability, APM, logging and metrics pricing - compared vendor by vendor, with one clean dated table per page.

APMPriceBook compares observability and APM pricing across 16 vendors and 6 categories. The headline rates: Datadog charges $15/host (Infra) + $31/host (APM) + $0.10/GB logs; New Relic gives 100 GB ingest free then $0.40/GB plus per-user; Grafana Cloud has a big free tier then $19/mo + usage. For logs, the cheapest published per-GB rates are Elastic ($0.105/GB) and Coralogix (as low as $0.17/GB tiered). Use the cost calculator to estimate your bill across vendors. Pricing snapshot: June 2026 - verify current pricing on the vendor's site before relying on these figures.

Data as of June 2026.

Browse by category

Category	Type	Vendors tracked
APM	Tracing & application monitoring	12
Log management	Logging	14
Infrastructure & metrics	Metrics	14
RUM	Frontend / digital experience	10
Distributed tracing	Tracing	15
Error tracking	Error tracking	4

Source: Vendor pricing pages. Data as of June 2026.

APM

Tracing & application monitoring

Log management

Logging

Infrastructure & metrics

Metrics

RUM

Frontend / digital experience

Distributed tracing

Tracing

Error tracking

Error tracking

Popular vendors

Datadog

Per host · APM from $31/host/mo (annual)

New Relic

Per GB / usage · 100 GB/mo free, then $0.40/GB + per-user

Grafana Cloud

Per GB / usage · Free tier, then Pro from $19/mo + usage

Sentry

Per event / volume · Free 5K errors; Team from $26/mo

Dynatrace

Per host · Full-stack from ~$69/mo per 8 GiB host

Honeycomb

Per event / volume · Free 20M events; Pro from $130/100M events

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What you can look up

Per-category comparisons - every vendor's rate for APM, log management, infrastructure metrics, RUM, distributed tracing and error tracking.
Per-vendor pricing - a page for every vendor with its per-product table, pricing model, free tier, pros/cons and a link to the vendor's pricing page.
Head-to-head comparisons - like Datadog vs New Relic, Datadog vs Grafana, Datadog vs Dynatrace and Sentry vs Datadog.
Rankings - cheapest log management, cheapest APM, best free tier and most expensive.
Cost estimate - the calculator totals hosts + log GB across the per-host and per-GB vendors.

Cheapest headline entry

Site24x7 - From $9/mo (Starter); APM from $35/mo
Splunk Observability Cloud - Infra from $15/host/mo; APM ~$60+/host
Grafana Cloud - Free tier, then Pro from $19/mo + usage
Better Stack - Free tier; Logs from $24/mo, Uptime from $29/mo
Sentry - Free 5K errors; Team from $26/mo
Datadog - APM from $31/host/mo (annual)
Splunk AppDynamics - APM (Premium) ~$33/vCPU/mo
Dynatrace - Full-stack from ~$69/mo per 8 GiB host

Has a free tier

Full list →

Guides

Observability cost calculator guide (2026)

How to use an observability cost calculator to estimate your monthly bill across Datadog, Grafana, Elastic and other vendors - what to input, what it excludes, and how to read the result.

2026-06-19 Datadog vs New Relic vs Grafana Cloud (2026 pricing)

Datadog vs New Relic vs Grafana Cloud pricing compared in 2026: per-host vs per-GB-plus-user vs free-tier-plus-usage, with the workloads each one wins.

2026-06-17 How to cut observability and log costs (2026)

Practical ways to cut your observability bill in 2026: tier low-value logs, control metric cardinality, sample traces, right-size retention and pick a billing model that matches how you scale.

2026-06-15 Datadog pricing explained (2026)

How Datadog pricing works in 2026: the modular per-host Infra and APM fees, per-GB log ingest plus indexing, per-session RUM, and why bills add up so fast.

2026-06-12 Cheapest log management tools (2026)

The cheapest log management tools in 2026 ranked by per-GB ingest rate, plus why ingest rate alone does not decide the bill - indexing, retention and tiering matter more.

2026-06-09 Per-host vs usage-based observability pricing

Per-host vs usage-based observability pricing in 2026: how the two models work, which vendors use each, and how to pick the one that is cheaper for your workload.

2026-06-04

Where the data comes from

Every figure is a dated snapshot taken from each vendor's own published pricing page - Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, Sentry, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Splunk, Elastic, Better Stack, Coralogix, Logz.io, Site24x7, Sumo Logic, AppDynamics, Last9 and Chronosphere. Observability pricing is modular and changes frequently, so each page shows the June 2026 snapshot date and links to the vendor's page. See our methodology for how derived figures (rankings, the calculator) are calculated. Pricing snapshot: June 2026 - verify current pricing on the vendor's site before relying on these figures.

Last updated: 2026-06-21